It is the Dhansak and wedding feasts that come to mind when you think of Parsis. Shireens with swan necks dressed in chiffon and Chopin. Sciatic Solis in sola- topis and solitude. When you think of these renowned personalities, sculptures, soaring institutions, the Bombay they created will come to your mind. You also imagine a dying community and vultures going extinct. But you hardly consider this as a religion. Perhaps because religion is today perceived as aggressive and intolerable, but the Parsis are nowhere near to that. Faith is what drives the community. Indeed it is its raison d’etre. For this minority community was born out of the desperate attempt to keep Zoroastrianism alive. 'Parsi' refers to an ethnic g

Author-Gopi Shah